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Kirkland Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ponderous | adj, very heavy, bulky, tiresome |
| pragmatic | adj, practical, opinionated, concerned with practice rather than theory |
| preclude | v, to make impossible, to shut out, to prevent |
| precocious | adj, having or showing much more ability/ knowledge than normal @ young age, prematurely developed |
| prestigious | adj, honored, an illustrious name/rep |
| pretentious | adj, claiming/demanding position of distinction/merit; self important |
| procrastinate | v, to put off doing something until later time, to delay |
| prodigious | adj, enormous, extraordinary, marvelous |
| profane | adj, secular, not connected with religion |
| profusion | n, abundance, generous amount |
| prolific | adj, producing many offspring, producing much, abundant |
| propensity | n, a natural leaning or tendency, bent |
| provincial | adj, having the ways and speech of a certain province.. country people apart from city people, thinking in narrow ways |
| prudent | adj, careful or cautious in a sensible way, wise, frugal |
| pugnacious | adj, eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome |
| quandary | n, condition of being doubtful or confused |
| querulous | adj, peevish, fault finding, expressing or suggestive of complaint |
| quixotic | adj, idealistic and utterly impractical |
| raconteur | n, a person skilled at telling stories or anecdotes |
| rancor | deep spite or malice, strong hate or bitter feeling |
| opulent | adj, wealthy, abundant |
| overt | adj, not hidden, open |
| painstaking | adj, very careful, diligent |
| pariah | adj, an outcast |
| parsimonious | adj, too thrifty, stingy |
| partisan | adj, showing a strong support for a party or cause |
| paucity | n, scarcity, smallness in number |
| peerless | adj, having no equal, better than the rest |
| perceptive | adj, discerning, observant |
| perfidy | n, treachery, betrayal of trust |
| meticulous | adj, very careful about detail, fussy |
| mitigate | v, to make or become milder or less severe, to moderate (to make easier/better) |
| morose | adj, gloomy, bad tempered |
| nomenclature | n, a systematic naming of an art or science |
| nonchalance | n, careless, lack of interest or concern |
| obliterate | v, to blot out leaving no traces, to destroy |
| obscure | adj, not clear, hidden, remote, not well known |
| obsolete | adj, out of date |
| officious | adj, giving unnecessary or unwanted advice/service, meddling |
| opportunist | n, one who takes advantage of any opportunity without regard for moral principles, for his own gain |
| peripheral | adj, external, incidental, tangential |
| peruse | v, to study, to read carefully |
| philistine | adj, narrow minded, smugly conventional |
| piety | n, devotion and reverence, especially to god and family |
| pique | v, to cause interest, to hurt feelings, make resentful |
| placate | v, to soothe, to pacify |
| placid | adj, outwardly calm, composed, self-satisfied, peaceful |
| plagiarize | v, to take ideas/writings from someone else and present them as one's own, to use without giving credit |
| platitude | n, thought or remark that is dull, flat, or weak |
| pompous | adj, self important, stately, magnificent |
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